By: E&P Staff AlfaQuest Technologies, Rolling Meadows, Ill., has released three new RipExpress II computer-to-plate workflow packages that offer automated prepress production workflow designed to simplify the transition from film to CTP.
Based on open standards, the modular new suite's Windows-based packages are scalable from basic to advanced to meet production requirements and capital budgets.
Key features of RipExpress II include an Adobe CPSI RIP, post-RIP hard and soft proofing, and fully automated post-RIP page pairing and imposition. Multiple levels of soft-proof page approval insure that every plate is output correctly.
A browser-based client interface is used to control all aspects of the RIP and workflow. Multiple users can simultaneously receive real-time production status updates, control print queues, review detailed job information, soft proof RIPped pages and approve pages for platemaking across the network.
Automatic post-RIP page pairing combines single-page bitmaps according to a specific publication description and naming convention for page pairing or commercial imposition. Pages are joined into printer's pairs using the bitmap merging process, which also can apply furniture such as registration marks, color bars, slug lines and bar codes. Layout templates can be saved and re-purposed or modified.
Actions take place automatically as pages are RIPped, allowing any number of jobs to be processed simultaneously as pages are received, in any order and for any number of publications.
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